Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 14 April 2013
Last week’s column, on Sri Lanka’s climate change adaptation needs and priorities, elicited some predictable reactions.
Environmentalist friends — with whom I frequently disagree — faulted me for not once mentioning climate mitigation, or actions to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
A couple of activists were also miffed that I didn’t get on their bandwagon of demanding global climate justice for historical emissions from industrialised countries. (Sorry, but that one is full of recycled hot air…)
Some felt that I had kept my analysis too much at the macro level, ignoring micro (or community) level measures. As I see it, the challenge is to keep ‘zooming in’ for detail and ‘zooming out’ for better perspective. Scattered action without a coherent vision is wasted effort.
Yes, reducing emissions…
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